What's In A Name

March 20, 1988|By J. Craig Crawford and Donna Blanton of the Sentinel Staff)

OF COURSE U.S. Rep. Andy Ireland would hold his re-election kickoff fund- raiser on St. Patrick's Day, and that has sparked some interest from the foreign press. The Lakeland Republican was called recently by a Dublin news organization and also a British television reporter, wanting a few quotes for St. Patrick's Day. The interviews ended abruptly when staffers revealed the congressman is not really Irish. The Cypress Gardens fund-raiser, however, was a success. Ireland picked up about $35,000.